“We need to pay attention to Michelle Alexander’s contention that mass imprisonment in the U.S. constitutes a racial caste system.... Her analysis reflects the passion of an advocate and the intellect of a scholar.”

—Marc Mauer, Executive Director,
The Sentencing Project,
author of The Race to Incarcerate

• “Go to Trial: Crash the Justice System”
The New York Times, March 10, 2012

• “In Prison Reform, Money Trumps Civil Rights”
The New York Times, May 14, 2011

• “The New Jim Crow: How mass incarceration turns people of color into permanent second-class citizens”
The American Prospect, December 6, 2010

• “Obama’s Drug War"
The Nation, December 27, 2010

• “The Failed Drug War Has Created a Human Rights Nightmare: How Can This Happen in Our Country and Go Virtually Undiscussed?”
Alternet reposting from Sojourners, April 28, 2011

• “Think Outside the Bars: Why real justice means fewer prisons”
Yes Magazine, June 8, 2011

• Review: A Plague of Prisons and The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
The Washington Post, October 14, 2011

• The New Jim Crow
The Nation and National Public Radio, March 15, 2010

• “I'm a criminal and so are you”
CNN, May 19, 2010

• “Michelle Alexander on California’s ‘Cruel and Unusual’ Prisons”
The Nation, May 26, 2011

• “Governor Schwarzenegger's Plan for Prisons Ignores Racial History”
The Huffington Post, January 18, 2010

• The New Jim Crow
The Huffington Post, February 8, 2010

• “The Age of Obama as a Racial Nightmare”
Tomdispatch.com, March 8, 2010